Why D is not popular enough?

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 19 August 2016 at 15:01:58 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
> Float math is slow compared to integer math and precision loss
> occurs when this rule is also applied to (u)int and (u)long
> with only the deprecated (as per amd64 spec) real type being
> large enough for 64-bit integers.

You're working with float anyway, so I believe the price is paid 
even by today's C rules.

The intermediates might be different though, I'm not sure.